“ I've spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. ”
- Will Eisner- Copy
- 2.6K
“ There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform. ”
- Xenophon- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ”
- Alice Miller- Copy
- 2K
“ True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. ”
- Johan August Strindberg- Copy
- 341
“ God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it. ”
- Austin O’Malley- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. ”
- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand- Copy
- 342
“ Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 940
“ The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. ”
- Lester Bangs- Copy
- 129
“ This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high. ”
- Abraham Cowley- Copy
- 3.6K
“ To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 1.3K
“ To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. ”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Copy
- 4K
“ No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 3.4K
“ No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand. ”
- Jason Zebehazy- Copy
- 3.1K
“ He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
- 1K
“ I'm demanding that they charge me with contempt and with perjury, I'm demanding it. ”
- George Galloway- Copy
- 101
“ Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,Since riches point to misery and contempt? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 492
“ Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 203
“ Do you know how many people ask me why I didn't hold you in contempt after the last stunt you pulled in this courtroom? ”
- David Davis- Copy
- 543
“ I view them with contempt and that contempt grows stronger every day. I am talking about the United States and Great Britain. ”
- Harold Pinter- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
- 1.7K
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